I was surprised, why the haste, why the secrecy, why jumping the queue? Kasab's former lawyer Abbas Kazmi

Abbas Kazmi was Kasab's first lawyer but had to leave the trial mid way.

"I came to know about his hanging this morning when journalists called me. It was a surprise for me as he was hanged out of turn, as there were many more people before him (to be hanged). So I was surprised, there was haste, why the secrecy, why jumping the queue?"

Kazmi described Kasab as very intelligent and said that he had read reports about Kasab conversing in Marathi with his guards while being lodged at the Arthur Road prison.

Kazmi reiterated that he too was affected and got emotional when nine-year-old Devika Rotwan gave her statement to the court where she detailed how Ajmal Kasab and co had shot at her at CST.

Rotwan lost her leg in the shooting after one of the bullets hit her. He said that the one memory that he would forever carry from the trial was when he came to know that Kasab had suddenly confessed.